Conciencia y eliminación del exceso de tensión del rostro de una actor en los primeros planos. Seguimiento y preparación del actor del cortometraje: Tienda don Augusto

Abstract

The following thesis is about the tension that an actor feels inside their body and finally involves his external body itself, specifically in the case of this investigation the facial expressions of the actor.This thesis goes deep on the process that an actor has to follow for achieve an state that lead him be himself freely with the character of the fiction and at the same time be true to himself as a person. The thesis has tree stages that involved the development of a calm and sane mind that follows a relaxed body, which finally allow the actor enter the character. The first stage explores the bioenergetics the concept developed by a psychiatrist named Wilhelm Reich and the studies that Lowen one his disciples explored in the last century. This explains all the psychological items that affect the body, breading and action of it. The second stage explores the physicality of the actor and the work of the auteurs like Grotowski and Eugenio Barba. This stage wants to understand the body from the acting perspective, not just his relaxation but also his impact n the work of the actor.

The last stage in the investigation is the application of these theories of body exploration on the actor of the short “Tienda Don Augusto”, and his following trough the acting process, to see the results.